Jefferson Corner

These days every one is obsessed with Hosni Mubarak and his billions and no one bother specially among the Palestinians to ask and wonder what ever happened to the tens of billions of the PLO money and whatever happened to the billions that Arafat controlled? Money that simply disappeared and vanished and so far no credible accounting were ever published and no credible and thorough investigation was conducted of the billions looted from the PLO and PA treasuries. Read the rest of this entry »

Poor Mahmoud Abbas and his Ramallah entourage, they must be feeling down on their luck. Ramallah leadership lost friends and allies left and right. It lost Ehud Olmert and Tizpi Livni who waged war on Gaza killing thousands and leveling Gaza to the ground and it lost a team that expanded the settlement at an accelerated rate and continued to build the Apartheid Wall. Ramallah also lost close confident and ally in Bin Ali and lost two close allies and confidants in Hosni Mubarak and Omar Suleiman, two men where were key architect to the siege of Gaza standing in the way of Palestinian reconciliations.  Ramallah not only lost close friends and allies it lost most favored destination (rest and recreation) in Sharm El-Sheik. Ramallah must be grieving and accepting condolences. Read the rest of this entry »

I never thought I will live to see the day when a corrupt, incompetent, dictatorial, criminal Arab head of state will be forced out and chased out of power. I have to admit I never thought the Arabs have what it takes to go out in the millions and chase these criminal dictators and thieves out of power without firing a single bullet. Yet and within only about 30 days or so the people of Tunisia and the people of Egypt did it. They went out in the hundreds of thousands and in the millions forcing corrupt dictators out. Today more than ever I feel so very proud of yes, being an Arab. Now that the people of Tunisia and Egypt showed us the way, perhaps the Palestinian people can do it too and yes, why not? Read the rest of this entry »

When President Obama ran for office, America and the world looked for and prayed for change, a change that never came at least to the Middle East. It did not come to Iraq, did not come to Afghanistan, and certainly did not come to the Middle East conflict.  President Obama’s speech in Cairo was full of promise and hope, a promise that remained unfulfilled and a hope that vanished quickly.  Obama’s” wishy washy” management of Egypt “people’s revolution” showed the Arab and Muslim world that America is America, the world change but America will not change. Read the rest of this entry »

Of all the people who have the Chutzpa to talk about “Radical Islam” is non other than Benjamin Netanyahu the head of the most “Radical Jewish” government in Israel’s history.  The Israeli prime minister made this statement in a joint press conference with the German Chancellor “ our real concern is for a situation that could develop…and which has already developed in several countries including Iran….repressive regimes of radical Islam” who seconded his concern referring to Mubarak repressive and criminal regime in economic terms after her talk with Mubarak” we talked. about where there are deficits, for example in connection with human rights and press freedoms and electoral law… and employment for young people”. The Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres added, “ fanatic religious oligarch is not better than a lack of democracy”. Read the rest of this entry »